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THE BIGUNVEIL

THE NEWCRUZE

2008Aug. 21 : � General

Motors Co. announc-es it will invest more than $500 million in the U.S. to build the Chevrolet Cruze, a new compact car, in Lordstown.

2009Sept. 15 : � Presi-

dent Barack Obama visits the General Motors Lordstown plant.

2010Feb. 23 : � Mark

Reuss, president of GM North America, announces a third shift at Lordstown.

Sept. 8 : � The Cruze launches.

2011May : � The Cruze

has its best month to date with 25,160 sales.

June : � GM sells 22,711 Cruzes in May and becomes the fi rst American-made vehicle to lead the compact-car cat-egory in fi ve years.

July : � Cruze

becomes best-sell-ing car in America in June, topping the Toyota Camry, after GM sells 24,896 of the Lordstown-built vehicles.

July 22 : � GM announces it will build a diesel model of the Cruze.

July 28 : � Near-ly 9,000 attend the fi rst open house at the Lordstown plant since 1986.

Oct. 20 : � GM an-nounces $5.5 million investment in Lordstown to build the diesel Cruze, in-cluding the MyLink in-dash navigation and entertainment system.

2012February : � The

Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cruze is named “Best Com-pact Car for the Money” by U.S. News and World Report.

April 25 : � GM makes 100 tempo-rary workers at the Lordstown plant

full-time employees.May 2 : � Cruze sales

drop by nearly 30 percent to 18,205 compared with 25,160 in April 2011.

June 16 : � GM an-nounces the Cruze will have new fea-tures for 2013 in-cluding MyLink multimedia system, rear-vision camera and side blind-zone alert.

June 23 : � GM will recall all 413,418 Cruzes for the 2011 and 2012 model years because of the risk of a possible engine fi re.

July : � Automobile Magazine ranks the Lordstown plant as the ninth-highest producing vehicle plant in the U.S.

Aug. 23 : � GM announces $200 mil-lion investment in Lordstown plant for the next-generation Cruze.

2013February : � GM un-

veils Cruze diesel model at Chicago

Auto Show.March : � Cruze

cracks the top 10 most-sold passenger cars in February.

March : � Cruze named the best 2013 compact car for families by U.S. News & World Re-port. Consumer Re-ports recommended three Cruze models to consumers based on crash-test results and im-proved reliability.

June : � Media re-ports state the next-generation Cruze will be delayed by a year and come out during the 2016 model year.

July : � GM’s sales fi gures show the Cruze had its best month yet in June 2013 with 32,871 sales.

August : � GM re-calls nearly 293,000 Cruze compact cars in the U.S. because the power-assisted brakes could fail.

September : � Cruze celebrates its third anniversary.

2014January : � GM sales

fi gures for 2013 show the Cruze with a record sales year, 4.4 percent higher than 2012.

February : � GM re-calls more than 1 million vehicles for faulty ignition switches. Among the recalled was the Chevrolet Co-balt, the Cruze’s predecessor.

March : � GM halts some Cruze sales and expands world-wide ignition-switch recall.

March : � 2015 Cruze unveiled at New York International Auto show.

April : � One mil-lionth Cruze rolls off the line at Lordstown.

May 2 : � GM an-nounces a $50 mil-lion investment at its Lordstown plant for the next-genera-tion Cruze.

June : � United Auto Workers Locals 1112 and 1714 announce they will raffl e off

the 1-millionth Cruze to a union member. Proceeds made after covering the cost of the car go to St. Vin-cent DePaul Society in Youngstown.

June : � About 33,000 2013 and 2014 Cruzes recalled for a bad part in the steering wheel air bag.

Aug. 4 : � Steve Notar Donato named the new GM Com-plex plant manager.

October : � 2015 Cruze arrives to dealerships with a facelift.

November : � Cruze named the 2014 fl eet car of the year by Automotive Fleet and Business Fleet magazines. It beats 48 other cars.

November : � Mis-souri-based North-Point Development purchases more than 170 acres of former GM proper-ty to develop an in-dustrial park that will include GM Lordstown plant suppliers.

2015March 23 : � GM

announces Cruze will also be pro-duced in Mexico, but it will not affect Lordstown.

April : � North-Point Development announces sum-mer plans to break ground on the Lordstown Logistics Center.

May : � Unit-ed Auto Workers Local 1112 re-elects Glenn Johnson as president.

May : � GM an-nounces the Cruze will be unveiled June 24 at a global event in Detroit.

June : � More details of the next-genera-tion Chevrolet Cruze are released: larger, yet lighter with new technology, pow-ertrain and safety features.

June 12 : � Several Cruze owners from across the nation meet in Lordstown to talk about the Cruze and tour the Lordstown plant.

THE CRUZE CHRONOLOGY

By KALEA HALL | khall@vindy.com

LORDSTOWN“I have had a chance to

see it, and it is amazing,” said Glenn Johnson, presi-dent of the United Auto Workers Local 1112. “The buying public will be very pleased with the next-gen-eration Chevy Cruze,”

The world will see the next-generation Cruze on Wednesday at a global unveiling in Detroit. The Vindicator will report live from the Motor City.

Its predecessor, GM’s best-selling car, hit suc-cess after success to make its presence known in the auto world and the com-pact-car segment. The plan for its successor is to build off the momen-

tum and continue to keep things rolling in the right direction.

“The Cruze was a vast leap ahead of the previous economy car, the Cobalt,” said Karl Brauer, Kelley Blue Book senior ana-

I t ’s be en s a id you be-

come the best by learn-

ing from the best.

In that case, the future looks

bright for the next-generation

Chevrolet Cruze built here in the

Mahoning Valley.

I HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE IT, AND

IT IS AMAZING.”

Glenn Johnson, UAW Local 1112 president

By SARAH LEHRslehr@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWNWhen Brent Davis was

stationed in Insurlik, Tur-key, after the Gulf War, he experienced one of the worst scares a father can imagine.

Davis was living with his wife and baby daugh-ter in base housing while on Air Force assignment

to support a no-fl y zone.“There was a fuel pipe-

line that ran pretty much under our cul-de-sac, and there was a terrorist group that set a time bomb on it to detonate that would

have certainly killed my wife and baby girl,” Davis remembered.

Fortunately, U.S. mili-tary personnel discovered the bomb and found that it wasn’t rigged properly to explode, Davis said.

“We’re a Christian fam-ily, and I just thank God for that protection [and]

Brent Davis, cen-ter, stands outside his Austintown home with his 19-year-old son, Justin, and his wife, Sonya. Davis holds a photo of his 21-year- old daugh-ter, Lainne, who lives in Cleveland.

WILLIAM D. LEWIS THE VINDICATOR

By ED RUNYANrunyan@vindy.com

WARRENNow that the Ohio Senate has

approved its version of the next two-year state budget, nine days remain for legislators to iron out the remaining details before fi nal approval by June 30.

Among the biggest headlines have been cuts in the income- tax rate and taxes to small busi-nesses.

But of more concern to some local government officials are measures that cut funding to townships and other government bodies though a tax that the state started phasing out 10 years ago and plans to resume phasing out during the next two fi scal years, starting next month.

A month ago, Larry Moliterno, a B o a r d m a n Township trust-ee, traveled to Columbus to ad-dress a commit-tee of the Ohio S e n a t e a b out the $576,000 the tow nship cur-rently receives through a pro-gram called TPP. Howland Police Chief Paul Mon-roe also testifi ed.

The full name is tangible personal property tax, a

tax that companies used to pay in Ohio to the school districts and local governments in which they were located, but the state elimi-nated it in 2005 to promote busi-ness growth.

Through 2010, the state said it would reimburse the schools and local governments for their lost tax revenue. The Legisla-ture adjusted the process of re-imbursing the schools and local goverments, however, and con-tinued to reimburse at various

See CRUZE, A4

COMING: Vindicator Business Writer Kalea Hall will report live from Detroit for this week’s unveiling of the next-generation Cruze. Watch for her reports in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.

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